What Are the Best Brands for Home Laundry Appliances?

In this 21st century, it can be a not easy task to make any home appliances purchase decision, even when it bowls down to finding best brands, such as buying washing machines and clothes dryers. With the vast improvement on the internet, we all have changed the way we do shopping these days.

Indeed, study has been conducted on how consumers perform searching and make buying decisions. In 2006, it has revealed some very interesting data - an amazingly over 40% of people would search for detailed customer reviews and reports found online prior to narrowing down the list of potential brands for any home appliance investment.

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So with so many brand names claiming to serve you the best products, which one can you trust? Which one will truly deliver quality washer dryers? Or perhaps, which ones provide the best value for money? These are just some very common question most buyers have, be it an online or offline purchase from local laundry appliance dealers.

Good Names Always Spread Like Epidemic

One thing we know for sure, is that quality and outstanding services tend to get very good exposure just from word of mouth. And this in turn leads to wide brand recognition both on the internet and in traditional media, such as TV, radio, newspaper and other authorities.

One way of quickly identifying the best brand for washing machines is to find out how many people are searching for the particular brand related terms in the industry. In other words, it's about finding out which brand is the most popular or most sought after by the consumer.

So here is a rundown of the most high volume brand related searches for the home laundry appliances sector (this list is broken down to North American washer dryers and European - UK washing machines):

US Best Washer Brands:

On top of this list is Whirlpool, also most widely considered as the leader when it comes to home laundry appliances. The runners up manufacturers are: Kenmore - which is now being produced by many different companies, Maytag, Samsung, GE (General Electric), LG, Frigidaire and Electrolux.

Europe - UK and Ireland Washing Machines:

This is getting a little harder to rate, because there many close contenders, each offering slightly different unique features concentrating on different segments of the market. Nonetheless, we can safely say that Bosch is currently considered the leading maker of high quality clothes washers and dryers, which utilise some of the most advanced and intelligent wash cycles available in the market.

Next in the ranking are the Hoipoint and Indesit, both offering very affordable price points for budget conscious home owners. Zanussi is also a very popular supplier of fully integrated washing machines both in the UK and Europe. Down the list we have Whirlpool again as a highly respected brand, and then is Miele - famous for expensive, but extremely durable washing machines that would last for decades and more. Some other very good producers of laundry appliances include, but not limited to: LG, Samsung, AEG, Beko and Candy.

Bear in mind that there is no definitely answer to what is the best washer dryer for you, because this is a quite a subjective question - it all depends on what is important for you. Is it prices that concern you most? Or is it durability? Or is it functions and ease of use? Those are just a few things to take into account.

What Are the Best Brands for Home Laundry Appliances?

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Laundry Detergents - The Curse Upon Our Environment And Water Systems

Laundry detergents can best be defined as a cleansing substance, especially a synthetic liquid or powder that dissolves dirt and oil using Surfactants to remove grease from the cloth, Abrasives to rub off the dirt from the fabrics, Ph substances are components that have a high ph factor to stabilize the other harder substances being used, Caustics used to break up dirt particles, Softeners are added to deal with the harshness of other components being used, Oxidizers are essentially used for bleaching.

The vast majority of detergents being used today are of the synthetic type, although our society is becoming more aware of the detriment these agents have on our Environment. It Is important to note that more and more people are choosing to use more environmentally friendly products.

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I am not blaming our water problems solely on the detergent as most of our problems with our water today comes from the industrial use of chemicals and their polluting our our soil, from the steel mill, lumber mill, oil refinery, farmers and the various herbicides and pesticides, even the Dry Cleaner you visit once a week is a serious contributor and the list could go on. It is the polluting of our ground, which leaches into our water table that is causing our main woes.

The main point I wish to bring forward is that we have alternative methods to produce and consume our every day products. With the technologies at our disposal, we can as individual consumers make a difference. By this I mean we do not need to subject our environment to as much synthetic chemicals as we do. Our laundry practices are contributing to our ground level water pollution and also the contribution to Carbon Dioxide (CO2) through the heating of the water.

Our society is single handedly destroying the second most important substance on earth. At present the World Health Organization says that there is about One Billion inhabitants on earth without safe drinking water. Yet the majority of us in North America take it for granted. Lets not forget that out Water Treatment Plants are subjecting us to Chlorine everyday. Chlorine is just a bad as the aforementioned chemicals used by our industries as it is also a carcinogen.

Enough with doomsday lecture. There are SOLUTIONS to our involvement in the on-going polluting of the environment.

Until next time: BE GOOD TO YOURSELF AND YOUR ENVIRONMENT.

Keith Weir

Laundry Detergents - The Curse Upon Our Environment And Water Systems

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Tide Detergent - When Laundry Soap Goes Rogue And Complicates Things

I went on a strange and arguably unnecessary journey last week. All I wanted was Tide detergent in a big box with no whistles and buzzers. It turned out that I was searching for the last passenger pigeon or principled politician, because this animal no longer exists in its original form and size that I could find here in the 21st century retail jungle of idiotic soap options.

Tide has beaten me up with a sales pitch ever since I was lucky enough to watch my first television set and the message was received over the decades. I really have no idea whether Tide is any better than the competition, but I grew accustomed to a standard issue product to suit my needs.

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The new world of Tide involves a highly segmented array of choices from liquid Tide to cold water Tide to compact Tide which claims to pack a big punch in a little box. Tide also comes laced with bleach or softener as additional options for people who actually care about laundry to a disturbingly obsessive level.

The real problem is that Tide has created an incredibly long list of optional choices which have effectively replaced a long and successful singular choice which apparently no longer exists. They have taken away the best and least complicated option and replaced it with non-options for guys like me.

Tide wants us to make ethical choices when it comes to their products when all I really want is a clean pair of jeans. Cold water Tide clearly uses less energy but I rarely think about Al Gore and his pet polar bears when it comes to laundry.

Detergent is just one of many highly uncomplicated issues that we have over engineered in the past several years. We are pushed into a giant multiple choice exam for everything under the sun and, unfortunately, "d- The K.I.S.S. Principle" is not the answer.

Are we really ahead of the game with an epidemic of irrelevant consumer choices? The correct answer to this 'yes and no only' question is "no". There is no 'maybe', 'sometimes'," I don't know'', new and improved "I don't know"," I don't know" with whitener, or extra strength "I don't know".

Too many inconsequential consumer choices force their way into our lives because it's a bloodbath out there when it comes to marketing a product in a world with a short attention span of sound bytes and style over substance.

Tide would probably rather market and package the same product that captured my consumer heart on a black and white T.V. back when fins on cars were king, but that would likely be corporate suicide.

Few if any companies with consumer products showcase their products as something that is exactly the same product as the one in the 1963 company catalogue. Longevity and dedication to one consumer philosophy would be a perilous business path in today's business models, even with products that need no improvement.

I really yearn for the good old days from two months ago when I actually found my last giant box of normal Tide. Yup-those were great times.

Tide Detergent - When Laundry Soap Goes Rogue And Complicates Things

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